Stuart C. McDonald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stuart C. McDonald on 2016-02-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers in part or full-time education other than higher education aged between 19 and 21 in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015 were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children looked after by the local authority.
Edward Timpson
The information requested is shown in the table below. This information is for England only.
|
Care leaver activity [2] |
Number of former unaccompanied asylum seeking children [1] |
|
|
2014 |
2015 |
|
|
Higher education |
20 |
40 |
|
Education other than higher education |
100 |
260 |
|
Training or employment |
40 |
130 |
Source: SSDA903
Information on the activity of all care leavers in England has been published in tables F1 of the Statistical First Release on looked after children[3].
[1] This includes young people who were unaccompanied asylum seeking children in their final period of care.
[2] Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
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